Leo Tolstoy, War And Peace

Quotes

• “One must try to make one's life as pleasant as possible. I'm alive and it's not my fault, which means I must somehow go ...”
• “If there is a God and future life, there is truth and good, and man's highest happiness consists in striving to attain t...”
• “It was as if the main screw in his head, which held his whole life together, had become stripped. The screw would not go...”
• “Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now beli...”
• “Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was...”
• “The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is wher...”
• “In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep...”
• “Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.”
• “You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.”
• “If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.”
• “We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”
• “It's all God's will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.”
• “There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.”
• “Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible.”
• “He is not apprehended by reason, but by life.”
• “Everything I know, I know because of love.”
• “Life did not stop, and one had to live.”
• “We are asleep until we fall in Love!”
• “God is the same everywhere.”